Stuffleufagus

I know I haven’t posted much lately. I’ve just been having a lot of fun learning about cloud computing, talking to customers, and working with employees.  I’ve missed that.  Especially the last part.

My kids are at the stage that they don’t really think I have anything to teach them anymore :)  The people I work with are older, and smarter, and believe that I do. So I have been having fun trying to lead them.

And I am finding new ways for us to talk to customers.  Twitter has been great, but a CampFireNow account has proven to be very useful - especially with Twitter.  I get a customer engaged on Twitter, and invite them to CampFireNow - where we can have a quicker, more intimate conversation.  We both win.

I’ve also been talking to more customers (and even competitors) 1:1.  Trying to help us all build a better cloud.

But I’m really having fun.  Talking to customers and trying to set an example to co-workers.

Work should be fun.  Or you shouold change jobs.

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I got a kick out of this sign in a bar window in Austin, TX.

“No Dogs After 9 P.M.”?

Double meaning there?

Perhaps not.

But I thought it was funny

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I’ll be in Austin, TX for the next couple of days.  I am going to the Rackspace Cloud Event.  It should be fun, and we’ve all been working really hard on making it a reality.

I’ll write more about it after I’m allowed to talk more about it

But I encourage you to watch the live stream on Wed - the link is on the above URL.

Thanks!

Rob

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I normally sleep about 4 hours/day.  Not this weekend though!  Friday I fell asleep at about 8:30 PM and woke up at 9:30 AM.  13 hours!

Saturday I fell asleep at 7:30 PM and woke up at 8:00 AM 12.5 hours!

No clue why I slept so much - I don’t feel ill, or anything.  Guess I just needed to recharge my batteries!

I do feel very good this morning though!

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I spent the day at the new Rackspace Headquarters.  First visit since I went with Scoble early this year.  It was under construction then (I am now a Mosso/Rackspace employee).

What impressed me?  The Dyson Airblade.

Really - a hand blower/dryer that actually works!

Everything in the bathrooms is no touch - even the soap dispenser (which I love, coming from a medical background).

But the Airblade - very cool.  It actually works!  In like 15 seconds!  And your hands are dry.

I want one.

I tried to take one, but I didn’t have the right set of tools to steal one.  Besides, I was in a high level meeting, and walking in with the hand dryer would have been odd.

I love great tech - and Dyson makes amazing stuff.  I LOVE their vacuums.  How many geeks do you know that talk about vacuums?  Only the ones who have bought a Roomba OR a Dyson.  The Dyson is a work of technology and art.  The Roomba is a conversation piece.

Some of the key Mosso/Rackspace employees geeked out over the Dyson products today.

I did

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